OITA (Kyodo) Two former elementary school teachers in Oita Prefecture were convicted Wednesday of bribing a senior board of education official to obtain their promotions to vice principal.
Yoichi Watanabe and Shinobu Hirose, both 50, received suspended eight-month sentences for each giving ¥500,000 worth of gift vouchers to the former senior official from last December to March.
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